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“Wicked. Jazz musicians aren’t supposed to write lyrics that good… Bands like this are why you move to New York.”- THE VILLAGE VOICE

“A present day ironist with a prewar (first world war that is) heart”- THE NEW YORKER

“recalls a time when instrumental virtuosity, harmonic sophistication, bucolic storysongs, and a straightforward emotional delivery were not mutually exclusive”- ACOUSTIC GUITAR

Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Matt Munisteri is a Brooklyn native who grew up as almost assuredly the only bluegrass banjo player on his block. His lifelong interest in 20 century American music led him from ﬁnger-style Country and Ragtime guitar, through Blues, to Tin Pan Alley and Jazz. His own music reﬂects this life-long devotion to the history of American Popular song and demonstrates a unique synthesis of rural and urban, long-gone and contemporary.